Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Chapter 14: Recapitulation

	[[[ Question.--Have Christian Scientists any religious
	creed?

30	Answer.--They have not, if by that term is meant
	doctrinal beliefs. The following is a brief exposition of
1	the important points, or religious tenets, of Christian
	Science:--

3	1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word
	of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.

	2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and in-
6	finite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the
	Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's
	image and likeness.

9	3. We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the
	destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that
	casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is pun-
12	ished so long as the belief lasts.

	4. We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evi-
	dence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity
15	with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and
	we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ,
	through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the
18	Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming
	sin and death.

	5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and
21	his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eter-
	nal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the noth-
	ingness of matter.

24	6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for
	that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to
	do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and
27	to be merciful, just, and pure. ]]]